We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West …

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase … wages and prices. -- reform reversals ; price liberalization ; trade liberalization ; privatization ; political economy …

’ home addresses to measure airport proximity, we find the risk of low birth weight babies increases by 17 percent among … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …